Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a flimsy manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flimsy manner.
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- adverb In a
flimsy manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a weak and flimsy manner
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Examples
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When Deane Beman took over as its commissioner in 1974, the PGA Tour was a middling collection of tournaments, many hosted by celebrities like Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason and Dean Martin, flimsily synchronized by a headquarters staff of 27.
The Man Who Groomed the Game John Paul Newport 2011
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For pure entertainment, nothing beats Victorian paintings and their emotional excess: young widows prostrate on gravestones, skinny orphans and stolen children, addicts in East End opium dens, and flimsily clad fairies.
Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011
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In fact, hopefully you're feeling so sick that you decide to go and rescue your poor neglected children, check them out of whichever flimsily justified "kid-friendly" hotel you've booked them into, cancel your tickets to see Mac King, and get on a plane to Florida, or Anaheim or -- frankly -- anywhere else in the world for a proper family vacation.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Sixteen: An Open Letter to Parents Who Bring Their Children to Las Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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In fact, hopefully you're feeling so sick that you decide to go and rescue your poor neglected children, check them out of whichever flimsily justified "kid-friendly" hotel you've booked them into, cancel your tickets to see Mac King, and get on a plane to Florida, or Anaheim or -- frankly -- anywhere else in the world for a proper family vacation.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Sixteen: An Open Letter to Parents Who Bring Their Children to Las Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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In fact, hopefully you're feeling so sick that you decide to go and rescue your poor neglected children, check them out of whichever flimsily justified "kid-friendly" hotel you've booked them into, cancel your tickets to see Mac King, and get on a plane to Florida, or Anaheim or -- frankly -- anywhere else in the world for a proper family vacation.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Sixteen: An Open Letter to Parents Who Bring Their Children to Las Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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One of the discussions in the postmortem was the reflection on how ‘democracy’ as conceived by Bush and the neocon gang was both flimsily conceived and counter-productive.
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But sometimes the bags are flimsily packed and explode on impact with the ground, or the aid tumbles into the water.
Still marooned: plight of flood-stricken villagers in Pakistan's Sindh province Declan Walsh in Sehwan Sharif 2010
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Meanwhile, Delia cuts an isolated figure flimsily buttressed by two unengaged helpers.
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The fact of the matter is that the science is so flimsily poor that it could ONLY pass for a cult religion.
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In fact, hopefully you're feeling so sick that you decide to go and rescue your poor neglected children, check them out of whichever flimsily justified "kid-friendly" hotel you've booked them into, cancel your tickets to see Mac King, and get on a plane to Florida, or Anaheim or -- frankly -- anywhere else in the world for a proper family vacation.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Sixteen: An Open Letter to Parents Who Bring Their Children to Las Vegas Paul Carr 2011
Khristafer commented on the word flimsily
This is my least favorite word. Its phonetic features reflect so well its nature.
May 9, 2013